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I guess the Proud Boys deserve cookbooks too?

The use of the word “based” is almost always a white nationalist whistle or flag. Like flashing the “OK” sign so others know you’re a racist.

The first time I saw the word based was the first significant violent attack on a BLM protestor by white supremacist Kyle Chapman in 2017. The Proud Boys klan gave him the honorary title of “Based Stickman”.

The author of this cooking site most likely has white power affiliation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activis...

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It's something teenagers say, or used to say, so i wouldn't judge the author just yet.

It _may_ become something only far right nuts say, same as with frogs and other 4chan stuff -- young people invent something, culture drifts, dumber or isolated people are least likely to drift with it and most likely to have violent views, eventually mostly violent people say something and the rest stops saying it because they don't want to be taken for one of the violent group -- but i don't think it has happened already.

In related news you just found out why many adults treat anything and everything teenagers do is something rude and offensive that needs to be suppressed. Teenagers are loud and annoying so their stuff is something loud and annoying people do. It's something you need to control.

Or i might be wrong, this can change quickly, but then the author can be wrong too.

Put the toilet paper rolls off your eyes and go take a look at his other work, primarily his Youtube channel. Based is not a word that is owned and primarily used by white nationalists; it's used by many different people. It's undeniable that he has controversial and non-conformist opinions(which is what "being based" usually means), but none of them are based on or related to racial discrimination.

His YT channel is full of 4chan cringe. I'm not going to give him any views but it seems likely he's alt-right.

Not everything is as it seems.

You call yourself iconoclast...? You're enforcing the orthodoxy...

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